

An Awfully Big Adventure(1995)
"In love, as in life, destiny is always waiting in the wings"
Overview
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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Alan Rickman
P.L. O'Hara

Hugh Grant
Meredith Potter

Georgina Cates
Stella

Alun Armstrong
Uncle Vernon

Peter Firth
Bunny

Prunella Scales
Rose

Rita Tushingham
Aunt Lily

Alan Cox
Geoffrey

Edward Petherbridge
St.Ives

Nicola Pagett
Dotty Blundell

Carol Drinkwater
Dawn Allenby

Clive Merrison
Desmond Fairchild

Gerard McSorley
George

Ruth McCabe
Grace Bird

James Frain
John Harbour

Pat Laffan
Mr Harcourt

Patti Love
Mary Deare

Hilary Reynolds
Babs Osbourne

Tom Hickey
Freddie Reynalde
Robbie Doolin
Reporter

Brendan Conroy
Disley

Johnny Murphy
One Eye

Peter O'Farrell
Long John Silver

Agnes Bernelle
Mrs Ackerly
Larry Murphy
Inspector
Vicky Curtis
Ellen

Brian McGrath
Vicar
Padraig O'Raghallaigh
GPO Clerk
Nick Grennell
Actor
Willie Smith
Empire Stage Manager
Katy O'Donnell
Young Stella
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